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OSGeo Korean Chapter Activity Report 2012

Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012

Contact name: Sanghee Shin(endofcap at gmail.com)

The OSGeo Korean Chapter was formed as an unofficial chapter in Feb 2008 and changed its status to an official OSGeo Local Chapter in March 2009. The OSGeo Korean Chapter had 249 members as of Dec 31st, 2012.

The event was highly successful with around 90 ~ 110 participants. 3 keynote speeches and 8 presentations were delivered by great and smart people there and followed by Soju Party near Samsung station!!

Trainings

2 times 'Open Source GIS Winter School' was held in February, 2012 in cooperation with KSIS(Korean Spatial Information Society). Although it was paid training program, it attracted huge number of people more than we expected.

1 time 'Open Source GIS Education Program' funded by MLTM(Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs) was held in August, 2012. It was full time 5 days training program covering open source GIS general, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer and OpenLayers.

Developments

Mr. Kyungtae Doh, one of Korean chapter member, started to develop Node.js based MapServer

Opportunities to Help

We definitely need some speakers for FOSS4G Korea 2013. If anyone wants to vist Korea and deliver some precious speeches, please contact us anytime.

We hope more open source GIS related event could be held here in Korea or in Asia region.

Outlook for 2013

We may see very prosperous year in 2013. As awareness of open source GIS has increased rapidly here in Korea, many organizations got to know the importance of open source GIS software and desire to cooperate with our chapter.

In 2013, we may attract more members to our chapter and could run our chapter in more systematic way. We hope that 2013 is the year that OSGeo Korean Chapter has started flourishing.

We'll explore the possibility of hosing FOSS4G 2015 in Korea with other GIS related society like KSIS(Korean Spatial Information Society).